> The timing of this request makes me uneasy: php8.0 has been in Debian for less than a week, and we are a month away from the transition freeze.
> My point of view after actually working on those issues is that there is a significant number of packages that are not working just fine with PHP 8.0, and require a fair amount of work before that. Some of them being security sensitive, so just working around visible issues may not be of the best interest of anyone…
And by the time the maintainers decided to go with 8.0, they missed the deadline:
> The transition freeze has started, so we'll not transition to php8.0 in bullseye.
> The timing of this request makes me uneasy: php8.0 has been in Debian for less than a week, and we are a month away from the transition freeze.
> My point of view after actually working on those issues is that there is a significant number of packages that are not working just fine with PHP 8.0, and require a fair amount of work before that. Some of them being security sensitive, so just working around visible issues may not be of the best interest of anyone…
And by the time the maintainers decided to go with 8.0, they missed the deadline:
> The transition freeze has started, so we'll not transition to php8.0 in bullseye.